Tag: communication

This gives me hope.

This post is for those of you who follow international politics on any level.

The US has had a policy of not speaking to Iran for many years. There’s even a debate in the current presidential election around “should we talk to our enemies?”.  Well, apparently someone in the current US administration thinks so.

There’s a lot of people who pooh-pooh talking, and I understand and agree with them. If you need to put up a building, standing around and talking about it won’t put the building up. If you have to make food for dinner, talking about it won’t make a nice beef stew. Talking is basically useless.

Unless you’re doing something that involves people. In that case, talking is hugely important.

Are you with me?

If you’re talking to someone, you have to pay attention to make sure they’re understanding you. This goes one-on-one, as well as speaking to a group. Communication is two-way.

Saw a nifty feature of meetup.com, a site that gets helps manage group meetings, from programmers to political rallies. I go to a PHP meetup in Orlando that organizes through them. Kevin is presenting the Zend Framework tomorrow, and I wondered what happened, since I usually get reminder emails about the meetings.

I logged into meetup.com, and was immediately greeted with a message saying that they’d had problems delivering mail to me recently. It asked if I’d changed my email address, or marked something as spam; as well as options to change my email address, or confirm that I was still using the same one.

Given the number of apps that just spamjaculate messages from a “no reply” address, it’s nice to see that at least one is listening back.